Plans for Shifnal offices are thrown out
Plans to add 3,000 square feet of offices to a new housing estate in Shifnal have been refused by a planning committee.
The plans would see offices built on land north of Haughton Road, in Shifnal, which has already seen an application for 400 homes, a swimming pool and a doctors surgery approved.
However, plans to add the office space next to the proposed swimming pool were rejected due to concerns over the amount of traffic going through the housing estate.
The proposal was rejected unanimously by Shropshire Council's South Planning Committee at their meeting in Westgate, Bridgnorth, yesterday afternoon. The plans, submitted by Lioncourt Homes, would see the 3,000sq ft building erected at the very north end of the development.
But councillors decided it would be dangerous to have so much traffic running through the new housing estate.
Councillor Stuart West said: "My concern is you are going to have traffic going through the housing estate to get to the commercial building.
"I think it is a strange way of getting something more out of this development. There are plenty of other areas around Shifnal for offices to be built." Councillor Cecelia Motley said: "I'm not sure it's a particularly suitable mix."
Councillors suggested other ways in which the office blocks could be serviced by traffic without going through the estate, but planning officers told them it would be very difficult to do as the site of the offices is too close to the M54.
